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Thinking Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
- There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.…
- You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive…
- With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus…
- As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
- Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
- I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
- I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
- I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that.…
- I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against…
- Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo,…
- It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I…
- April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too…
- Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
- You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this…
- At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point,…
- It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell…
- Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start…
- So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what…
- Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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